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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
People
Wiser
Conversation
Seem
Learned
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The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
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What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.
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The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.
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It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
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Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
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As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.
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How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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The easiest books are generally the best for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
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